You'll soon be able to use Circle to Search in Android's split-screen mode (www.androidauthority.com)
Still... (gnucobol.sourceforge.io)
COBOL is not obsolete?
Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption (www.livescience.com)
The decipherment of an ancient scroll has revealed where the Greek philosopher Plato is buried, Italian researchers suggest....
Denuvo: the biggest drag on PC gaming in decades (www.gearrice.com)
Jupiter may be the reason why Earth has a moon, new study hints | Live Science (www.livescience.com)
It would appear that the so-called “great instability” event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. This is the conclusion of some careful scientific...
Affluent Americans are driving US economy and likely delaying need for Fed rate cuts (apnews.com)
Older Americans like Harris are fueling a sustained boost to the U.S. economy. Benefiting from outsize gains in the stock and housing markets over the past several years, they are accounting for a larger share of consumer spending — the principal driver of economic growth — than ever before....
Philips pays $1.1bn to settle respirator case (www.bbc.com)
Dutch medical products maker Philips says it has reached a $1.1bn (£877m) deal to settle lawsuits in the US relating to potentially faulty breathing devices....
UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices (arstechnica.com)
This is an obviously good thing.
Toyota and Nissan pair up with Tencent and Baidu for China AI arms race (www.cnbc.com)
Williams-Sonoma must pay almost $3.2 million for violating FTC's 'Made in USA' order (apnews.com)
Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order....
Russia arrests more journalists in intensifying crackdown on dissent (www.washingtonpost.com)
Russia has arrested two Russian journalists on “extremism” charges in recent days, the latest moves in a continuing crackdown targeting independent reporters and media outlets. A third Russian journalist, with Forbes Russia, was charged with publishing what authorities called “fake news.”...
France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French (www.theregister.com)
Analysis: Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans (www.cnn.com)
There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large....
Even Mild Cases Of COVID-19 Can Leave A Mark On The Brain, Such As Reductions In Gray Matter (today.tamu.edu)
It should also be noted that damage to this specific area of the brain within the cerebral cortex can cause sociopathic behaviour. Additionally, this induces the “slow and insidious loss of the capacity for moral rationality.”...
File Compression Is Awesome: A Practical Guide (popcar.bearblog.dev)
The Linux Foundation Attracts Intel and Other Industry Leaders to Building Open AI Tools (iblnews.org)
Yet another dubious election deadline maneuver, in Florida (wapo.st)
The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series (www.pcgamer.com)
Research paper tests how many Arch Linux packages are reproducible (outpost.fosspost.org)
Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking (kotaku.com)
EU to investigate Meta over election misinformation before June polls (www.theguardian.com)
The EU is set to launch formal proceedings against Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, amid concerns it is not doing enough to counter disinformation before the EU elections in June, according to reports....